Satellites Visible Tonight from Jalandhar

Satellites visible from Jalandhar (31.3260°N, 75.5762°E) tonight, with the IST start time, direction, peak height and brightness of each pass. A pass is listed only when the satellite clears 10°, is sunlit, your sky is dark and it reaches about magnitude 4.5.

Jalandhar, one of India's main makers of sports goods, lies on the Doaba plain about 132 km north-west of Chandigarh. On clear winter days the Dhauladhar range can be seen to the north-east, and the farmland around the city is flat and open.

When the sky works in Jalandhar

The Doaba gets its rain mainly in July, August and September. Paddy-straw smoke after the harvest and fog in midwinter make late winter and spring the time for clear skies.

Planetarium and astronomy clubs

Pushpa Gujral Science City, on the Jalandhar-Kapurthala road just outside the city, has a large digital planetarium.

Nearby cities

Pass times for Ludhiana, Amritsar.

Which satellites are visible from Jalandhar?

The ISS is the brightest at magnitude -3 to -4, followed by China's Tiangong station, large Earth-observation satellites, spent rocket bodies and Starlink trains in the days after a launch. GPS and NavIC satellites orbit too high to see with the naked eye.